"Vadim Plessky" <plessky@cnt.ru> wrote in message
news:200211222027.23370.plessky@cnt.ru...
> Well, I would believe that SMS is *used widely*, but can you compare it
to,
> say, number of e-mails circulating around?
> I think ration would be 100:1 (100 mails per one SMS written)
That would make (for the UK) 5billion non-spam/automated email messages
_every_ day, which is ludicrous, I don't even believe with spam we're
going to get to that for the UK market, (50 million peer 2 peer sms's
sent per day in the UK source is the Mobile Data Association) So yes I
think it is comparable, of course it's a one 2 one (in general)
communication media unlike email which can easily be one 2 many so on
emails recieved you're probably right, but on sending I would put sms
higher.
> Anyway, SMS is *stone age* comparing to SVG.
but it's an illustration of how data use on mobile phones is something
people want, but as I say I'm not optimistic about SVG short term on the
mobile platform either.
> | Then of course we look into Japan and South Korea etc. where data
> | services make up an even larger proportion of their revenues, and
include
> | web use, and a lot of it. Yes it's regional but don't assume your
> | regional mobile use reflects world wide use.
>
> Market in S.Korea and Japan is *very different* form US or Europe.
Of course, but SVG is a tool, so if it's relevant tool to the market, we
should discuss it, and ensure that it meets the needs of that market,
SVG-Mobile does this (well maybe, there's some debate it would seem, and
I personally despite being a high mobile data user would never use
something smaller than a PDA for accessing content and I'm not a
developer in the area I couldn't really judge - IVR is as close as I
get.)
[TV's etc]
> Current UI in those devices is terrible.
Definately! and with many they are generally HTML/Javascript based
systems, so extending to SVG may well come in the future.
> Well, about bandwidth savings - they do exist, and savings are quite hu
ge.
> Of course, saving also depends on kind of browser/supported compression
> protocols, and power of CPU in your device.
> For example, my SVG icon them is about 3.8MB in pre-rendered pixmap
format
> (and there is no way to build into PDA such huge amount of data), but
just
> around 300K zipped, or just 70K .tar.bzip'ed.
> I doubt though that mobile phones or WIndows CE (Pocket PC) PDAs would
support
> .tar.bz2 ;-))
my iPaq supports tar.bz2 ... the point is though that in downloading a
single static graphic for a 100x100 256 colour raster, there's not much
saving in a svg stream over the svg source, and the processing
requirements are a lot higher, so I don't see static graphics as relevant
to SVG mobile, but as I say, I'm not big on the industry (but have been
to a few conferences on the subject in recent weeks)
Jim.